Comment by Surinam

Comment by harzzaa

there is VERY easy way to farm these. There is one Q where you need to throw bombs into their mouth and they will explode, im talking about the elites now, after it explodes, you can still use skinning on it.

Comment by Liquoid

Best way to farm these (very situational, as it depends on whether you've quested in Dragonblight before)

Do Quests up to Hard to Swallow. Don't turn the quest in - just use the dynamite provided to farm the scales from the worms. Got nine in about 20 minutes =)

Comment by Alzira

Okay THAT is disgusting

Comment by sl0shk0sh

I've been farming the Tunneler's just west of the quest givers near the Crystal Vice. Might not be the best drop rate, but I'm seeing them about 1 in 5 kills. The mobs are also relatively low level, isolated, and weak.

Comment by rzzr

After reading the Urban Dictionary I suspect that Blizz had also read it, hence the name of the quest Hard to Swallow.. ewww

Comment by katakotia

What I thought of when I read the quest was the enemies known as Armos from various Legend of Zelda games.They are suits of armor or statues. The first Gamecube installment in the series, The Wind Waker, had Armos Knights - large statues that could only be defeated by throwing a bomb in their mouth or damaging their eye with arrows and forcing it to open.

Comment by pangeltveit

a great spot to farm this and also a great spot to farm borean leather is inside and outside of a cave in stormpeaks.coords are 46-55.

i got 22 of these in 30 mins

Comment by Ilphin

Actually they're named after one of the children of Loki, (who Blizz call Loken in WoW), that was called Jörmungandr, which is a snake.

Comment by Junyed

And obscure...

It's not like it's even an expletive or anything :\

Comment by HeadCap

On some servers these are useless for selling on AH as they go for 20-25g a stack and with auction house taking 5% and it costs 6 gold to put 20 of these on for 24 hours with the risk of loosing the 6 gold if not getting sold

You can get more from vendoring them for 20g a stack..

Comment by Draol

I'm going to have nightmares about that tonight...

Comment by nisath

if any updates come up on farming these tell me

Comment by Rullestol

I find that very disturbing....

Comment by prattler

mung are also bean sprouts, and no, i don't mean that bean sprouts are near-inconceivably disgusting (although close).

agreed that it's weird the word is censored; referring to the bean sprouts is its most common usage, and in the naughty sense, it only refers to a general something that is as disgusting as it gets. in other words, the "blend" mentioned in the urban dictionary is not actually mung, it is an example of something that is mung, something that has mung-ish characteristics.

this word is a great example of an adjective that is used more as a noun than what it actually is.

Comment by KillerCaitie

I think they are now a 100% drop rate off of Roaming Jormungars, just killed & skinned 8 in a row all being the scales.

Comment by Heimdallen

I agree as well that the definition provided by the link to the Urban Dictionary is possibly one of the most repulsive and offensive things I've ever heard in my life (and I'm a pretty hard to repulse and/or offend person); HOWEVER, I find it quite interesting and amusing that this very same word that was censored out of the middle of a properly spelled NPC name in WoW was not censored when posted a total of 4 separate times by Prattler in his post offering additional explanation to the original censorship.

Let's be honest here. I'm sure something like 99% of the population had no idea that word by itself had a meaning at all, let alone one as vile as it apparently does according to the urban dictionary entry listed above, and certainly NO one was thinking anything other than simply "jormunger" as it was written, the npc that this post is about. In reality, the only result of censoring out "mung" from the middle of "jormungar" was that it just educated several thousand people what the word's slang meaning is. Good job.

If it's a bot that censors out words based on a list of no-no's, than why did it censor out the middle of a longer word (commonly censored words are quite often in the middle of normal, non-offensive words - there are only 26 letters in our alphabet, it happens). And then , why in God's green earth did it fail to censor out the word itself, in plain context, when repeated 4 separate times in a post? And if it was done by a human moderator, how in the heck did he or she not have the common sense to leave the word "jormungar" intact, because censoring it out clearly draws attention to the fact that the word has a definition other than the standard and accepted one (as revealed in the urban dictionary link), the normal definition being either:

1) Noun, Proper English - A small bean which is often used in Chinese cooking.2) Noun, Slang - The bucket used underneath a beer tap at a bar to catch the foam and spill off during pouring.

The stupidity of this incident is astounding and either reveals a program horrible at catching and censoring unacceptable words, or a moderator which we can only assume, due to lack of any other sane reason, was to intentionally draw attention to his/her favorite slang definition for the word, which is absolutely vile and disgusting. This should result in said person's removal from active censoring duty so that they are unable to promote their favorite bizarre slang words through haphazard censoring in the future, resulting in user curiosity and ultimate discovery of the word in question's definition, as happened in this case, which was presumably the only possible goal of the twisted censor.

Let's hope it was a very poorly functioning automatic feature of Wowhead's message boards active censoring system, because if it was a result of a human manually editing it, I'm repulsed. End of story. Ugh.

Sorry for being so verbose, but I frequent Wowhead often for valuable game data and don't feel that this kind of thing has a place on these comment boards. Hopefully it was a bizarre and innocent mistake and not a ploy to "accidentally" introduce such a disgusting term to the populace of these boards.

Comment by Jeoandrg

Actually Jörmungandr is a dragon, he just looks like a snake (lindorm=dragon)

Comment by Dragnis

I think WoW took the name from Jörmungandr which was a giant serpent in Norse mythology. The great serpent encircled Midgrad and was known for an epic tale of fishing with Thor. The story goes and I'm being brief with it. Hymir a giant went fishing with Thor and it was like a contest seeing who could catch the biggest fish. Thor using a giant head of an ox because Hymir refuse to give Thor bait fished way beyond comforts of land. They row where the legendary Jörmungandr lies and fearful Hymir warned Thor of the creature. Not really caring Thor throw in his line and behold he hooks Jörmungandr the fight was epic. The great serpent suppose dragged Thor all the way through the boat to the bottom of the ocean in some instances and other saying when Jörmungandr arose you could see the gigantic serpent and venomns overflowing from it's mouth. Hymir grew pale white due to the fearful site of Jörmungandr and as Thor was trying too reel in Jörmungandr. Hymir snap the line and in doing so angered Thor. Which Thor in returned hit Hymir with Mjöllnir in doing so. Love mythology so thought I share the story with ya.

Comment by Nitr

Just sold 5 of these for 15g each, you got to have luck and great timing while selling. Jormungar leg armors were selling for 20g at the same moment, guess i must have been lucky

Comment by blahism

As of patch 3.3 I have been able to clear the entire cave twice and not get a single Jormungar Scale drop. The drop rate appears to have been nerfed and isn't worth it at all. Tried it with 2 different toons.

Comment by Aramahk

For those of you that don't speak WoW and just think in real terms and literal language.. what all these people talking about drops mean is that they can be skinned, with leatherworking skill, these critters do not DROP J.scales as may be read from these posts, so no you cant farm your own mats if you are like me and wanted some mats for some enhancements.

Comment by Shortiiee

I have been farming these for the last hour & only skinned 5, need a fair few, the drop rate isn't that good, but on a brighter not, I'm also picking up Borean Leather which I also need for my Leathworking. If anyone finds a better place to farm, with a better drop rate, please post :)

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Comment by hexicGrind

Farming these from Ravenous Jormungar in Storm Peaks actually has a much lower drop rate than the shown 25%. But since up to 6 can drop at once the kill/loot ratio may be closer to the 25% indicated.

It took me about 4 times of clearing the entire cave they are in to get the 12 scales I needed. Around 75 kills.

Comment by xenaphobe

Jormungar TunnelerFair spawn rate. One every 3-5 or less at times.Jormungar Tunneler/jormungar-tunneler

Comment by BlameTheBird

There are 2 main caves to farm these scales. The first is the cave at The Crystal Vice, which is located in a crevasse just west of the very north end of the Path of the Titans in northern Dragonblight. The cave entrance is at coordinates (57.0, 12.0). There are Ice Heart Jormungar Feeders and their children, Ice Heart Jormungar Spawn patrolling the cave and the path outside leading to it. These are level 72 worms and are pretty easy to kill as a lvl 77 rogue, especially the little ones. Just watch out for the boss worm at the back of the cave. One pass through the cave and I collected 5 Jormungar Scales. That includes 2 that dropped when I skinned a couple worm corpses left behind by someone else.

The second cave is the Hibernal Cavern, which is located in the west wall of the Valley of Ancient Winters in centralish Storm Peaks. The cave entrance is located at coordinates (56.0, 64.0). Inside this cave you will find level 79 Ravenous Jormungar sharing breathing air with Icemaw Bears. In a comparable time period here I collected 6 Jormungar Scales. Because these worms are level 79 and the fact you have to deal with the occasional bears, I found it much easier (at my level) to farm the scales at the first cave at The Crystal Vice. The first cave is located much closer to Dalaran than the second cave, which is also a plus.

Since farming can be so random, I decided to go back to The Crystal Vice cave and do another full clear run. This time I put a stopwatch on it and it took just over 20 minutes to clear the cave all the way to the back and then again all the way back out to the front. I collected 8 more Jormungar Scales. So overall, in about one hour of farming, I ended up with 19 of the Jormungar Scales, along with plenty of Borean Leather, Borean Leather Scraps, Worm Meat and Chilled Meat, several greens and even a blue, which dropped regularly off all the worms in both caves. I did this as a regularly questing geared lvl 77 rogue with the skinning and leatherworking professions. I got to craft myself a set of Jormungar Leg Armor out of it! If I decide to farm any more of these scales, I will definitely go back to the The Crystal Vice cave, at least until I gain a few more levels.

Note: An hour after posting this, I decided to run The Crystal Vice cave one last time. This last run took more like 25 minutes, and I got 6 more Jormungar Scales. Three runs through The Crystal Vice cave netted me a total of 19 Jormungar Scales. Not too bad, I figure.